One thing that people often forget is TVs / stream boxes and Alexa/google assistants.

Smart TVs all have microphones that are recording (for “voice commands”) and the same with the remotes for stream devices (though probably not unless asked because of battery life), also google and Alexa’s are constantly always listening. They are simply spyware devices that parse everything you say and hand it to advertisers, insurance, governments, etc…

Phones also suffer from the battery life problem, so jury is still out on whether they listen to you because constantly recording audio would degrade battery life quite a bit (though maybe it is factored in). Phones absolutely do share location data and any phones discovered on the same WiFi network or in the same location if that data was available and from there will share entire search history of devices on the same network (well, that is on the data center end, phones likely just send what devices and for how long they were together). From there it is quite easy to advertised based on search history, unencrypted text data, etc…

For example in OP, OP had likely searched around about cars and checked out manufacturers websites and such before meeting with the parents (unless they were going in completely blind to dealerships), so it would have shared exactly the cars that they were looking at and linked it to the parents for advertising.

Still fucked, ethically wrong and legally grey, but “listening” is a bit of an inefficient way to do it, generally.

Can you provide one or elaborate on it?

Embedded developers have tried all manner or wizardry to simply track speed, not even position based just on an accelerometer/gyro, but the sample rate error drift is so large that putting a GPS module in there is 100x more accurate for deriving speed.

I would be interested to see how a browser, which almost certainly doesn’t get the full serialized data, is able to track just based on that which the wearables industry have been trying for decades with bad results.

But to be fair, when is the last time that is there wasn’t a softball interview or debate? A huge portion of the US population have never seen a real debate lol

And is promised to be open, but their hardware is still proprietary closed source just like bambu and they use a proprietary hotend and nozzle that you can’t replace 3rd party, so if anything breaks and they decide not to help you, good luck fixing it.

Almost exactly how bambu started. Seemed to get better once 3rd parties cloned their proprietary parts (not of their own doing), then nosedived.

Looks like an amazing printer at a great price, but so did Bambu in the beginning.

Except boots.

If infantry bought the straight trash on the consumer market today, they would fall apart in a month…

It depends on what you want to do. I went down a bit of a rabbit hole because my girlfriend wants one and I get a bit research obsessed because I like to buy once if possible.

sub 300€

Every new machine sub-300€ or so will have plastic gears and almost all plastic parts. This means that they will only last a few years of hard use, or longer very light use. They are also very limited in what fabric they can sew because anything like denim or thicker reaches the limits of the plastic gears so it can’t do it without the risk of breaking.

The Singer Heavy Duty is often recommended but it has very very touchy pedal, runs very fast, and has no speed regulation. Contrary to the name it is just a basic beginner machine, not heavy duty at all and QC is very bad. Modern Singers are apparently extremely hit or miss in general.

So for that price range, going for ease of use and features makes the Brother CS70000X if you are in the US, otherwise Brother Innov-is A16 for that budget in the EU.

500€ Budget:

• Brother Innov-is A65
• Janome Sewist 721
• Janome Sewisr 725S
• Janome TM30 if you want computerized (not better per se)
• probably a Pfaff or husqvarna is also good but less reviews on these.

1000-2000 Budget

• Janome HD series
• Juki F300 or F600
• Janome Skyline S5/S6
• this is where you start getting into deciding based on more technical knowledge that I don’t have.

There is also a 2nd route: get a decent vintage 2nd hand machine in a 2nd hand store for <100€, try it out, learn the basics, do some repairs, and see how much you actually use it. Then, when it breaks, you will be in a position to know what you need, how much you use it, and what features would be nice. Then you can go out and buy an expensive model that will last you forever (hopefully).

Been using it (not often beyond basics for home server container administration) for years but I always get confused with searching vs search and replace vs global search

/<search> (n for next instances)

:%s/<search>/<replace>

:g/<search>/p (grep was named after this one IIRC, Global Regular Expression Print)

And often I just use :%s to search and highlight all instances and don’t press enter because I forget the others and I often have to search and replace for docker comppse snippets.

Sadly, I can’t afford to spend ≥420€ for a dedicated streaming device, so looks like us poors are stuck either with a terrible experience of plugging in a laptop and usingouse and keyboard or tracking and from a Chromecast/smart TV/etc…

Not only that, but invoking “protect children” in order to track everyone and their children and be able to identify and track the most vulnerable children almost in real time.

Definitely won’t use it to kidnap and abuse more children like they have been doing before this technology, no way!

Oops no unlock in apps. PiHole doesn’t work on YouTube or some regional TV apps.

Yes, but also on the hardware level.

I don’t know enough about OS programming to know if it is the architecture or the (closed source, as mentioned) CPU design itself that is more difficult to implement.

Looking at the MCU space, even with a known architecture (like ARM), each processor has to be individually implemented in software and firmware which is a ton of work, and the only people who necessarily know how are the processor designers unless it is open source. But take that with a big block of salt, because I have never done it, just looking at industry practices.

Damn, we have large yogurt pots here in Belgium that simply come without the upper seal, just foil on top.

Outside of the US here: nearly every insurance company in Belgium (that are coincidently also the banks) are 100% scamming people and literally make their entire business model off of ripping people off as much as possible.

Using any and every excuse to deny people the insurance they paid for when they have legitimate claims is literally how they are “profitable.”

I had the GameCube “The two towers” and “return of the king”

This is definately ROTK from the GameCube by the amount of characters (TTT was only 4 I think)

Faramir was pretty great.

But that era of LOTR games was phenomenal.

Gameboy The Third Age being an advance wars/fire emblem turned based while other platforms were an open world RPG and they were all great.

The movie games were absolutely great.

The Hobbit cartoon-style game was also pretty good.

Battle For Middle Earth series was iconic and while unbalanced, had some of the most epic fights

LOTR Conquest was like battlefront with LOTR

Like star wars games in those days, there were so many different game genres where most of them were actually really well done unlike other movie based games.

Yeah here in the EU, new, they are mostly hanging toilets with a sewer connection via rubber sealed PP pipes.

Then you caulk the top and sides and not the bottom (which is more open) so that any leaks leak onto the back tiles and are immediately noticeable and not into the subfloor (which here in Belgium is usually screed + brick/concrete)

Also extra benefit is that there is no toilet connection with the tile to clean around, you can just mop directly under it and any kids “missing” will be easily cleanable.

Having used it in the browser, it barely works in a browser. >50% of functionality is simply missing. Pretty much only the very very basics of typing and formatting.

I also use libreoffice and actually like calc better than excel because python support ia a first class citizen for programming within the spreadsheet in Calc, but AFAIK macro spreadsheets aren’t very cross compatible, but I guess I work in engineering so every company I have worked with or for uses excel macros, probably not representative of other professions.

Eh, don’t know about that. Probably a very large portion of people would need word/PowerPoint/etc… For company document compatibility.

For sure a lot of people though could easily get by with LibreOffice.

Best typo! Hello fellow 7 year old!

Not according to the documentation.

Qobuz connect is something else that only got released 1 year ago. Spotify Connect even is only still in alpha on Music Assistant and that has been around for many years.

You can already for years simply find library items from qobuz in the music assistant UI, but playing music to an external Music Assistant provider directly from the Qobuz app on a different device has yet to be implemented.

Unless the documentation and github issues are all wrong. If you are able to just do that by default, you probably want to give some information as to how on the github feature request.

Oh for sure! I am just meaning specifically the Spotify Connect casting in general.

Then you don’t have to use Music Assistant’s really clunky and weird interface and anyone that comes to your house can just put on music from their own account and own app direct through WiFi without worrying about Bluetooth connection and signal.

I just looked and apparently Qobuz has a Connect feature that launched last year!

I hope Music Assistant integrates that! Apparently digital hi-fi systems are also still busy integrating the functionality, including Sonos/IKEA. It would help a ton of people switch to quobuz